Ricinoides is an arthropod genus in the family Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.
Distribution Species in this genus are found in West Africa.
Species it contains sixteen species:
Ricinoides afzelii (Thorell, 1892) — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone Ricinoides atewa Naskrecki, 2008 — Ghana Ricinoides crassipalpe (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Ricinoides eburneus Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire Ricinoides feae (Hansen, 1921) — Guinea, Guinea-Bissau Ricinoides hanseni Legg, 1976 — Sierra Leone Ricinoides iita Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Nigeria Ricinoides kakum Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Ghana Ricinoides karschii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Congo, Gabon Ricinoides leonensis Legg, 1978 — Sierra Leone Ricinoides megahanseni Legg, 1982 — Côte d’Ivoire Ricinoides nzerekorensis Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Guinea Ricinoides olounoua Legg, 1978 — Cameroon Ricinoides sjostedtii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Nigeria Ricinoides taii Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire Ricinoides westermannii (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) — Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo In 2026, it was proposed that several species attributed to Ricinoides should be split out into several newly described genera, giving the new combinations Alantakun karschii, Bambara hanseni, Bambara megahanseni, Gizoo crassipalpe, Tautau leonensis, and Ududo sjostedtii.
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